User talk:Martin H.

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[edit] Archive Note

see the archive. --Martin H. (talk) 17:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion request

more than 20 photos of the http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Palace_of_the_Parliament. 79.112.34.190 07:37, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busuresti-Intercontinental.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/79.112.19.138 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/79.112.18.133

All these images violate the copyright law of Romania. 79.112.34.190 07:44, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for watching that issue. However, im not the best instance in deciding about FOP or not (I e.g. fail to see the creativity in File:HPIM7270(cladirea-csm).JPG) so nominating them for deletion was already the best way. For questions use the talkpage of COM:FOP. --Martin H. (talk) 07:53, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] St John's Cathedral, Brisbane

Would you kindly restore the photo of the Cathedral taken across Ann Street from the liturgical southwest. It can hardly be a copyright violation as I took the photo myself. Thank you. 114.78.31.98 09:12, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

The image in en.wp en:St John's Cathedral, Brisbane was replaced by a copyright violation, that copyright violation was deleted, not your image. You may undo the copyright vandalism by User Brisbane7. --Martin H. (talk) 09:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Categories by age

Hello. Of course, it would take ages to categorize all of the photos of persons where the age can be calculated. But categorizing even four people of each age could be a good way to the creation of an "age-guessing game" (google it), freely licensed, maybe even free from the personality rights burden. I haven't paid much thought to the category naming though. Do you have any suggestions? Regards, Ageguessinggames (talk) 13:35, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Thats not inside the Commons scope imo. It not opens people the Commons content or makes commons more usuable but only creates more and more useless categories for persons. From the bot categorization Commons already has a mess of categories inherited from en.wp. In result people will add Category:George Bush in 2007 to a category of 61 and 60 years old people, thats not serves any purpose. --Martin H. (talk) 13:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Category:George W. Bush in 2007 contains few pictures where George W. Bush is depicted alone. Where there are people of different age in a picture, I would add no category for a particular age. Since others could, I don't know how to fix that (a warning template?). There should not be too many categories for undefined ages. Actually, for an age-guessing game, even "men in their twenties" is not useful, because, I believe, there are many more pictures where the age is defined unambiguously.
  • However, that category contains 211 free-standing files, which would be a bigger problem than categorizing random images from it, if the pictures were only of GWB himself.
  • Bots must not add the categories if they cannot tell if there is only one person in the picture, who that is, and when the picture was taken.
  • Should all kinds of categories include everything that fits, or can some be like galleries?
  • If we don't use categories like "Men in their twenties" for files, but only categories like "28-year-old men", "Men by age" would be a good tree (though "People by age" could be connected with it everywhere, and people would probably want to add categories by race and similar).
Would having them not be worth it? There are computer games and other programs which parse Wikipedia articles to create interesting things. This could be one of the things, and, unlike many, actually educational.
--Ageguessinggames (talk) 14:21, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
As I said: It might be interesting to look at people of the same age, but it fails to provide educational use. It would be a very good idea to add descriptions to images (e.g. Goethe at the age of 25), but it is useless to add images to an age category too compare how they are looking. --Martin H. (talk) 19:26, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Questions as to CC status of CyArk images discussed on my Talk Page

According to correspondence I had with CyArk representative Liz Lee, they are releasing certain images into the full CC 3.0 domain sans the Noncommercial/No derivatives license and under Attribution/Share-Alike. However, as for Qal'at al-Bahrain, the images are under full copyright protection and I will thus remove all of them (see my wikipedia profile talk page). I will make sure that any CyArk (and other) images I post to wikimedia are released into the public domain, and the same applies to any user of wikimedia commons who uses images CyArk - Elizabeth Lee informed me that we should just email them about individual instances for permission and they will release individual images into the attribution/share-alike class of CC, and indicate so on those individual media on the CyArk website. elizabeth.lee(at)cyark.org is the email to use, they seem to be pretty generous folks over there. An example is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balakanche1_cyark.jpg, which links to http://archive.cyark.org/scan-shot-of-limestone-column-cave-of-balankanche-media, where the license was changed for an individual media item. --DuendeThumb (talk) 02:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, indeed, that media file is under ad different copyright status and it is ok on Commons ({{cc-by-sa-3.0}}). However, image without that exemption on the website or without a written permission from the copyright holder stored in COM:OTRS are not ok. --Martin H. (talk) 09:00, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Question about the procedure of blocking

Please assist on my request.--Александр Мотин (talk) 19:07, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

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